English

Noun

Swiftie ‎(plural Swifties)

1. (slang) A fan of American singer-songwriter and actress Taylor Swift.
   • 2012, Ina Esclamado, "Taylor Swift", Cord Music Magazine, April 2012, page 26:

     Today was the day, and it hadn't fully hit me till that very moment when the doors opened and I was rushing to the front of the stage and standing amongst the thousands of fellow Swifties.

   • 2013, Sean Keeley, "Grammys: the good, the bad and the ugly", The Heights (Boston College), Volume 94, Number 8, 14 February 2013, page B4:

     Even for devoted Swifties, it's hard to deny that her surrealist nightmare of a Grammy performance was a definite miscalculation.

   • 2013, Colin Orthmann, "Party Animals", Sound, Phrase & Fury, Volume 1, Issue 5, September/October 2013, page 35:

     “RED” makes you think of Taylor Swift, so maybe we can get some confused Swifties to buy our album.

English

Alternative forms

• swifty

Noun

swiftie ‎(plural swifties)

1. Someone or something that moves swiftly.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 52:

     ‘He don't like coffee,’ Gregorius said. ‘He's a swifty. He moves fast. Good reflexes.’